Sex Education

Is this your way ?

Infancy

  • Rapid body growth
  • Need parents’ full attention and nurture

Childhood

  • Learn social skills for daily living
  • Learn to get along with peers
  • Imitate parents, seeing them as role models
  • Adjust to school life

Adolescence

  • Stage for gaining knowledge
  • Body starts to produce more hormones which stimulate pubertal development including secondary sexual characteristics and body growth
  • Develop new and more mature relationships with peers of both sexes
  • Achieve personal independence, develop your own goals and make your own choices
  • Develop self-image, identity and self-esteem
  • Pay attention to appearance and value peer’s acceptance

Boys

  • Increase in body weight and height, stronger build
  • Hair grows on the face
  • The larynx enlarges and the voice deepens
  • The shoulders broaden, the body becomes more muscular
  • The testes and penis grow larger. Scrotum becomes larger with darkened skin. Testes mature and produce sperms
  • Increase in sweat glands secretion, may develop acne and body odor
  • Hair grows at the armpits and around the genital areas

Girls

  • Increase in body weight and height, body becomes curvy
  • Voice remains in high pitch
  • Breasts develop
  • Fat deposits making the hips widen
  • Ovaries start to mature and release ova. The uterine lining builds up and breaks down periodically and menstruation occurs
  • Increase in sweat glands secretion, may develop acne and body odor
  • Hair grows at the armpits and around the genital areas

Adulthood

  • Complete the study, select a career
  • Consider life goals and career plans
  • Respect parents and accept their advice
  • Dating, get married and start a family
  • Have children
  • Take up parental role

Late adulthood

  • Establish a career
  • Raise up children
  • Look after ageing parents
  • Have a happy family and sweet home

Elderly

  • Retire
  • Have grandchildren
  • Enjoy your life

Everyone is unique as one’s family background, past experience, vision, expectations, academic qualifications and talents are different. Work hard, be decisive and try your best to overcome the difficulties you encounter so that you will be able to fulfill your life goals and walk along your path smoothly.

Wishing you a very bright and happy future!

(Revised in June 2022)

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